The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 86 : Saraswathi - 1

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🌴 Saraswathi - 1 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📖. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻. The Divine Word  🌻

From a spiritual viewpoint every principle in creation is regarded as an intelligence and also understood as a deity. 

The ancient Vedic seers realised that there is a constant flow of energy emerging out of pure existence, the background of all created things, which they described as the Divine Word. They also called it Saraswathi, the Goddess of the Word. Saraswathi literally means the flow. 

When the source of the Word is understood as God, the springing forth is an expression of God and therefore continuously with God. The Bible also says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

When we speak, we play the role of the Creator. Ideas keep on coming from out of our subjectivity and as words they go out in various directions. Thus the same happens in the micro-cosmos as in the macro-cosmos.

In the Vedic symbolism it says that Saraswathi emerged from Brahma, the Creator, and immediately flew out into the vastness. 

When Brahma saw her beauty, he was so in love with her that he ran after her and made her pregnant. United as husband and wife, they brought forth the creation into objectivity. 

The mystery of creation is explained in a similar way in the Old Testament: Eve was taken out of the breast of Adam (wrongly translated as a rib) and humanity then came out of Adam and Eve.

It says that Saraswathi emerges through the four faces of Brahma. This is a pictorial explanation of the four dimensions of the Word. 

Three states of its emanation are hidden in subjectivity; the fourth state appears as objectivity. Only one fourth of the creation is visible, three fourth are in the invisible realm.

The manifest universe corresponds to the vocal utterance of a sentence and is called Vaikhari in Sanskrit.

Before we speak, the sentence is formed in the mind. It is called Madhyama and corresponds to the mental form of the universe in the mind of the Creator.

But even before the sentence is conceived in mind, the whole idea exists beyond speech in our subconscious and semi-conscious mind. 

This is called Pasyanthi, the state of the word which is with God. It is no longer dormant or static but it has emerged and is dynamic. This can also be compared to the emergence of the Light from darkness.

The state preceding to Pasyanthi is Para, ‘beyond’. Para is the state of pure Existence without an observer which cannot be described; it is the eternity from which the Word emerges as awareness.

The flow of the Word comes from the latent into the potential state. From there it goes to the level of grouping and then to utterance. 

The second state is also compared with the conception and the third state with the growth of pregnancy, until finally with birth the body comes forth into the objective world.

 If we understand the flow of the four stages of the Word and meditate on it we can understand a bit of Saraswathi.

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: Saraswathi – The Word / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Spiritual Astrology.

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